Word: en
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...abused, is a divine ordinance . . . With all its inadequacies and imperfections, we believe that Christians are called to give their fullest support to the United Nations, the only semblance of world government we possess . . . We can support President Eisenhower and the decision of our Church tak en in convention after convention pledging full support to the United Nations...
...lawyer and oil wildcatter, who settled down to horse racing after his wells started to gush, hit the big time fast (1949) when his Old Rockport went to post at 33 to 1, copped the $141,800 Santa Anita Derby; between planes at New York's LaGuardia Field, en route from Kentucky to Pawtucket. R.I., to see one of his horses at Narragansett Park...
...clock sharp. By that time. Virginia's twelve electoral votes. Maryland's nine, apparently New Jersey's 16 were Eisenhower's, and he was running ahead in Pennsylvania, the state the Democrats had said they had to take in order to win. The Stevenson forces en joyed a few slim sunbeams-14 sure electoral votes in North Carolina (where one Jerry D. Batts of Roanoke Rapids was declared to have cast his vote, though he died with it clutched in his hand), expected pluralities in most of the other Southern states, a good lead in Missouri...
...Wells' War of the Worlds. Of the estimated 32 million people who listened to the thirty minute broadcast, nearly a fifth were sufficiently frightened and gullible to take measures to ensure their survival. In the meantime, CBS and the FCC shared the horrors wrought by Orson's Hallowe'en prank...
...WHRB production is not great, the main fault lies in the choice of script. The War of the Worlds is of great psychological interest, but is at best only amusing drama. But tonight is not Hallowe'en, so a large part of the rationale for the production is gone...